U.S. helps bring about Iraqi change

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Mar 28, 2008 at 12:01 AM

Dear Editor: I am sorry to see John Camacho [letter, March 26] so misinformed about the war in Iraq. If the president was misinformed about WMD, so was the majority of the United States Senate, the majority of the U.N. Security Council through 12 resolutions, and the majority of the intelligence services of nations throughout the world. While it appears we did not understand the history of Iraq well enough, it also appears that the above named groups did not either. At the least they did not express their reservations publicly until it was too late.

The people of Iraq, by the millions, dared death and torture to vote into existence a nation and constitution. Most of the killing has been done by Iraqis of one persuasion or another, settling old hatreds. We have apparently been through the worst of that and it appears Iraqis may learn to live in peace together if we don't pull out too soon.

Our intent was to help the Iraqi people. This has a chance of coming true if we don't falter. The Iraqis are policing themselves more and more each day. If their meddlesome neighbors, Iran, Syria and others, will let them alone, they may well make it. It does no good for anyone, especially our troops, for us to continually carp from the safe sidelines here at home.

Gerald G. Jones

Tuscaloosa

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